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Breaking up with WordPress after two decades

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Re: Breaking up with WordPress after two decades

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post #19

Wordpress is done, SaaS is done. Static Software is done. Now people need dynamic, fully personalised and compounding software.

What is "compounding" software?

Perhaps like a pharmacy that mixes their own medications from more basic ingredients and is known as a “compounding pharmacy”.

Probably just means everyone has to vibe code their own software.

Re: Breaking up with WordPress after two decades

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post #19

Wordpress is done, SaaS is done. Static Software is done. Now people need dynamic, fully personalised and compounding software.

What is "compounding" software?

Maybe compounding interest on all the technical debt generated by the LLMs?

Re: Breaking up with WordPress after two decades

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post #4

I know it's not the main topic of the post, but I think it may be worth pointing out that Bluehost is owned by a company infamous for poor quality hosting solutions and trying to monopolise the web hosting field: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endurance_International_Group So regardless of whether you go with WordPress or a different solution, you may want to be cautious about that company. They tend to oversell their…

> trying to monopolise the web hosting field

What does this even mean?

Re: Breaking up with WordPress after two decades

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post #25
post #4

I know it's not the main topic of the post, but I think it may be worth pointing out that Bluehost is owned by a company infamous for poor quality hosting solutions and trying to monopolise the web hosting field: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endurance_International_Group So regardless of whether you go with WordPress or a different solution, you may want to be cautious about that company. They tend to oversell their…

> trying to monopolise the web hosting field What does this even mean?

They own at least 74 different web hosting companies and are buying more brands all the time. They want to own a large percentage of this field at least.

Re: Breaking up with WordPress after two decades

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There must be something in the air, because I just migrated away from WordPress & Bluehost too: https://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/migrating-away-from-wordpre.... I'm so much happier with the site.

The solution I'm using is certainly not as mature and featureful as WordPress, but I don't have to patch it for security holes so frequently either.

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